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Experimental phonetic research on speech rhythm seems to have reached an impasse. Recently, this research field has tended to investigate produced (rather than perceived) rhythm, focussing on timing, i.e. duration as an acoustic cue, and has not considered that rhythm perception…

The current study tests the use of vowel duration as a cue for the voicing of the following stop by Saudi ESL learners. It is mainly constructed on the Language Transfer Theory (LTT) established by Gass and Selinker (1994), the Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM) formulated by Major …

The increase in proxy wars’ prevalence and the phenomenon’s persistence after the end of the Cold War has triggered an interest in the study of the factors that affect the success and failure of proxy interventions. This thesis provides a comparative analysis of three cases, nam…